John Courtney Murray, S.J., is one of those glamorous people you are always hearing about, and are left wanting to hear more. He is a dashing man, and an intimate of those among the high and mighty who are lucky enough to engross him—and how hard a job that must be! Once he told a reporter from the New York Post that Henry Luce tends to talk too much after dinner (theirs is a non-confessional relationship). He spends occasional weekends in East-hampton; and when he is the guest of honor, the list is screened with special care. He was appointed visiting lecturer at Yale University for one year in 1951. Half way through his stay he gave three public lectures. To everyone’s astonishment, he filled the large Law School Auditorium to overflowing—an unheard-of feat for a resident scholar, let alone a minister of God.
We Hold These Truths, by John Courtney Murray, S.J. Sheed and Ward, $5.00
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